guilty - Story 59390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the bouquet in his arms felt crushing. John had been so excited for tonight, a romantic dinner with Melissa. But last night, he’d seen her, with another man. His mind seemed to be stuck, replaying the scene over and over. A wave of exhaustion washed over him.

He stood in front of her apartment door, his hand trembling as he reached for the doorbell. The carefully chosen flowers, the planned conversation, the anticipated affection – all felt poisoned. He felt his chest tighten, making it hard to breathe. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t, not now, face her.

He slowly turned and walked away.

Emotion: guilty

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion guilty. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 guilty stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the guilty emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the guilty vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.492
`L`	0.398
`탓`	0.354
`been`	0.323
`ashamed`	0.319

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.400
`(!)`	-0.279
`la`	-0.276
`😍`	-0.274
`"!`	-0.264